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Harvard and Brown advanced to this year's finals by vastly different routes. After a first-round bye, the top-seeded Crimson routinely dispensed with Yale, 2-0, Saturday morning on first half goals by Greeley and Landry. The Bruins, on the other hand, after dismissing Cornell in Friday's first round, struggled long and hard for a 1-0 semifinal victory over Princeton...
...quiet confidence, even Mitterrand must have been surprised by the magnitude of the Socialist sweep, which was apparent as soon as the first-round results began to trickle in on the evening of June 14. Surpassing even the most optimistic polls, Socialist candidates won 37.5% of the popular vote?half again as much as Mitterrand's first-round total on the April 26 presidential ballot. The neo-Gaullists and Giscardians took 20.8% and 19.2% respectively...
...only in France but in Western capitals. "Now no one will be able to say Mitterrand is a prisoner of the Communists," said French Political Scientist Pierre Hassner. Nothing underscored the sense of relief as graphically as the reaction of the Paris stock exchange: within days of the first-round voting, values on the Bourse gained back 7% of the 30% lost after Mitterrand's election. The ailing franc, too, was showing signs of stabilizing...
Last summer in this space I wrote about a young tennis player who had been a brat as a junior star but who had matured into a poised and potentially great competitor. I recounted the first-round loss of one Jimmy Arias to a veteran professional in the Washington Star International and said Arias had left his tantrums behind and might someday fulfill the dreams that I too once savored as a regular on the USAT kiddies' circuit...
McEnroe himself dismisses these specious contentions that Jimmy Connors once used to justify his torturing of officials and using his T-2000 as a symbolic phallus to impress unfriendly fans. After making a fool of himself during a rather unexciting first-round win at Wimbledon this week, the kid from New York admitted he had erred. But as usual, he had to add an excuse, telling reporters, "I have this feeling that, God, I won the point, but they (the officials) are taking it away. When I'm an incompetent fool playing, I lose. But when they are--they just...